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Jean Simmons

Jean Simmons (born January 31, 1929, London, United Kingdom; died 2010), was a British-American actress. Simmons's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie and Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

Jean Simmons’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Jean Simmons’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Scholar

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Jean in the U.S.?

#1172

US rank in 2025

~483,475

Americans share it since 1880

1927

its peak year

In 1929, 11,865 American girls and 288 boys were registered Jean — 12th among girls and 327th among boys on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jean’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

3

Soul Urge · being heard

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Jean’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia

Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1928, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Jean apart

The National Board of Review Award for Best Actress came in 1953, when Jean Simmons was 24.

Study took Jean Simmons to Aida Foster Theatre School.

Jean Simmons was 15 when the work began in 1944.

The record gives lung cancer as the cause, and Highgate Cemetery as the resting place.

Jean Simmons was born to Charles Simmons, married Stewart Granger and Richard Brooks and raised one child.

On Wikipedia the categories read Alumni of the Aida Foster Theatre School, British musical theatre actresses and Burials at Highgate Cemetery.

Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
Aida Foster Theatre School
Awards
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy (1955), National Board of Review Award for Best Actress (1953) and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (1983)
Nominated for
Volpi Cup for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Working from
1944
Cause of death
lung cancer
Buried at
Highgate Cemetery
Citizenship
United States and United Kingdom
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
62

What the chart says

Jean, according to the stars

Core essence

Jean is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Jean is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

How Jean wants to be loved

Jean wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Jean, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Jean creates

How Jean makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Jean creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Jean is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Jean is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Jean scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Jean's birth date. Working below.

Where Jean sits

Six lines

Jean’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Jean

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jean

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Jean

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jean

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Jean

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jean

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Jean Simmons

Three stars chosen from the real sky above London on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over London that night

Computed for 51.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at London at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 6.9° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.

At 51.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −38.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at last quarter, 57% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 38° down.

The name and the places

Born in
London, United Kingdom
Lived in
London

Wikidata records London as Jean Simmons's home, London among them.

The death is recorded at Santa Monica, Los Angeles County in 2010.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Jean Simmons: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Jean's chart is

Chart pattern score

68 / 100 · Unusual

2 unaspected planets · Grand trine · T-square onto Venus

An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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Jean Simmons at a glance

Aquarius Sun

Ideas first, people second.

Jean Simmons's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 31, 1929, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Earth Dragon

Confident before the proof.

Jean Simmons was born on January 31, 1929, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 8

Ambition with a spreadsheet.

Jean Simmons's birth date, January 31, 1929, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Jean’s chart

Jean’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.8° orbMoon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.5° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2° orbJupiter flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.1° orbMercury flows with Mars · Trine, 2.8° orbMercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.1° orbMoon faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 3.6° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.6° orbSun in Aquarius · 11°09′☉11°Moon in Libra · 29°00′☽29°Mercury in Aquarius · 23°55′ · retrograde☿℞23°Venus in Pisces · 27°47′♀27°Mars in Gemini · 21°05′♂21°Jupiter in Taurus · 2°39′♃2°Saturn in Sagittarius · 26°58′♄26°Uranus in Aries · 4°29′♅4°Neptune in Virgo · 0°31′ · retrograde♆℞0°Pluto in Cancer · 16°49′ · retrograde♇℞16°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableVenussquareSaturn0.3° to 1.3° orb

    Jean’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune2.1° to 2.2° orb

    Jean’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurytrineMars2.6° to 3.0° orb

    Jean’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn2.8° to 3.3° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune3.5° to 3.6° orb

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn5.7° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn5.8° to 5.9° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus6.2° to 7.2° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionNeptune6.4° to 6.8° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 8.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 7.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Jean’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 5°33′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 25°26′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosAries 15°12′ (moves 0.75° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 25°09′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 17°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea conjunction Mercury 1.2°
  • Ceres square Saturn 1.5°
  • Eros square Pluto 1.6°
  • Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.8°
  • Ceres conjunction Venus 2.4°
  • Chiron conjunction Jupiter 2.9°

Jean’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Jean’s chart

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Jupiter, Saturn, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-square Saturn 0.8°
  • Mercury biquintile Pluto 1.1°
  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.3°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.8°

Born the same day as Jean

Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer was born on January 31, 1929 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From London, at 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.

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Famous people with Life Path 8

  • James FranckGerman-American physicist
  • Hannes AlfvénSwedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and science fiction author, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physics
  • Max von LaueGerman physicist, Nobel laureate and anti-Nazi
Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?

Jean’s cards

Computed from January 31, 1929. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Scholar

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jean’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q107656 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

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The same Jean Simmons at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jean Simmons.

Quick answers about Jean Simmons’s chart

What zodiac sign was Jean Simmons?
Jean Simmons was an Aquarius: born January 31, 1929, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What was Jean Simmons's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 31, 1929 birth.
What was Jean Simmons's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was Jean Simmons's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Jean Simmons's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Jean Simmons's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 5 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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